Vixen vs Mixen - What's the difference?
vixen | mixen |
A female fox.
A malicious, quarrelsome or temperamental woman.
* 1859: , . Adam Bede : page 54. Köln: Könemann Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, 1999:
(colloquial) A racy or salacious woman.
As nouns the difference between vixen and mixen
is that vixen is a female fox while mixen is a compost heap; a dunghill.vixen
English
Noun
(en noun)- . . . and if Solomon was as wise as he is reputed to be, I feel sure that when he compared a contentious woman to a contiunal dropping on a very rainy day, he had not a vixen in his eye–a fury with long nails, acrid and selfish.